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  • Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Practice

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Johannes M. Luetz, Fátima Alves, Gustavo J. Nagy, Sidat Yaffa, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal, Jokastah Kalungu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is part of the Climate Change Management Series. It includes the works focusing on climate change policies and technologies that support the implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. The included works also discuss methodological approaches and experiences showing how the principles of climate change adaptation may be implemented in practice across various ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development

    Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Amanda Lange Salvia, Rudi W. Pretorius, Luciana Londero Brandli, Evangelos Manolas, Fatima Alves, Ulisses Azeiteiro, Judy Rogers, Chris Shiel, Arminda Do Paco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book fills an important gap in the literature, and presents contributions from scientists and researchers working in the field of sustainable development who have engaged in dynamic approaches to implementing sustainability in higher education. It is widely known that universities are key players in terms of the implementation and further development of sustainability, with some having the ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Climate Change Strategies: Handling the Challenges of Adapting to a Changing Climate

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva, Fátima Alves, Ismaila Rimi Abubakar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book includes information, experiences, practical initiatives and projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide audience. It addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change impacts and respective solutions in an integrated and coherent way.Climate change as a global phenomenon imposes new challenges for survival. Extreme weather events ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Theory and Practice of Climate Adaptation

    Edited by Fátima Alves, Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses Azeiteiro ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As such, both the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) recommendations call for action not only from government, but also from various stakeholders. Apart from the knowledge offered by modeling and forecasts, which allows the ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Health

    Improving Resilience and Reducing Risks

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change. The authors analyze the effects of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of the health and well-being of communities (i.e. poverty, clean air, safe drinking water, food supplies) and on extreme events such as floods and hurricanes. ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

  • International Perspectives on Climate Change

    Latin America and Beyond

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Sandra Caeiro, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This collected volume deals with emerging issues related to climate variation, climate change and adaptation technologies, with a special focus on Latin American countries. Presenting a variety of adaptation strategies and projects currently being undertaken and implemented, the book showcases how Latin American nations are struggling to meet the challenges of climate change. Latin America as a ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Communities

    Integrating Strategies and Educational Approaches

    Edited by Kathryn Adamson, Rachel M. Dunk, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Sam Illingworth, Fátima Alves, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyzes how climate change adaptation can be implemented at the community, regional and national level. Featuring a variety of case studies, it illustrates strategies, initiatives and projects currently being implemented across the world. In addition to the challenges faced by communities, cities and regions seeking to cope with climate change phenomena like floods, droughts and other ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Integrating Sustainability Thinking in Science and Engineering Curricula

    Innovative Approaches, Methods and Tools

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Sandra Caeiro, Fátima Alves ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Including considerations of sustainability in universities’ activities has long since become mainstream. However, there is still much to be done with regard to the full integration of sustainability thinking into science and engineering curricula. Among the problems that hinder progress in this field, the lack of sound information on how to actually implement it is prominent. Created in order to ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education

    Volume 4

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves, Petra Molthan-Hill ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of what universities around the world are doing to implement sustainable development (i.e. via curriculum innovation, research, activities, or practical projects) and how their efforts relate to education for ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

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    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Haruna Musa, Gina Cavan, Paul O'Hare, Julia Seixas ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyses the links between climate change adaptation, resilience and the impacts of hazards. The contributors cover topics such as climate change adaptation in coastal zones, the evaluation of community land models, climate change considerations in public health and water resource management, as well as conceptual frameworks for understanding vulnerabilities to extreme climate events. ... Read more

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  • The Global Water System in the Anthropocene

    Challenges for Science and Governance

    Edited by Jan Leentvaar, Janos Bogardi, Anik Bhaduri, Sina Marx ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD